Media Matter : Images As Presenters, Mediators, and Means of Observation

This volume discusses a broad range of themes and methodological issues around images, photography and film. It is about sharing a fascination about the visual history of education and how images became the most influential (circulating) media within the field of education on local, regional, national and international levels. Within this volume images are primarily analyzed as presenters, mediators, and means of observation. Images are seen as mobile reproducible media which play an active role within the public and educational sphere. They are means of observation and storytelling, they shape identities by presenting models of how we should act in and perceive the world, they circulate though different contexts and media, all of which impacts their meanings. Contents Introduction Part 1: Images as Models and Presenters Chapter 1 “Around the Table”: Consumption, Ritual, and Identity. A Visual Essay Chapter 2 “Solemn as the Kremlin”? Emotions of Teachers in Soviet Classroom Photos Chapter 3 Images of the Ireneu Segarra Method and its Uses in Schools at the Onset of Music Education Redevelopment in Catalonia Chapter 4 Teenage Apprentices at Risk: Corporate Imaginings of Polyharmony (Luxembourg, c. 1910–1940) Part 2: Images as Mediators Chapter 5 Pictures at an Exhibition: Images, Stakeholders, and a Public History of Education Chapter 6 Physical Education and Sport in Spain: El Explorador Magazine Chapter 7 Mediating the Right to Education: An Analysis of UNESCO’s Exhibition Album on Human Rights and Its Global Dissemination in 1951 Part 3: Images as Means of Observation Chapter 8 School Practices in Photographs: Recess Chapter 9 Visual Presence and Interpretation: Two Dimensions of the Fight Against Illiteracy in Texts by Carlo Levi and Photographs by David Seymour (1950) Chapter 10 The Impossible Schools: Rural Classrooms in the Paintings of Italian Artists During the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century Chapter 11 The Visual Discourse and Public Image of the Spanish Scouts (1912–1931 Contributors